ICAL values giving all users the proper resources to use this facility. It is not only important to create an organized system through which users can reserve and safely use its labs and equipment, but to also allow for users to participate in improving the facility.

Instrument Reservations

Users who have completed appropriate training will be given access to the ICAL Equipment Reservations Website. This website shows the availability of each instrument and who is scheduled to use it. Please do not schedule instruments on which you have not been trained unless you will be accompanied by a fully-trained user or have been given permission by ICAL staff.

Reserve an Instrument

 

User Listserv

Subscribe to the ICAL listserv to be alerted to instrument updates and important ICAL news. We highly recommend that every ICAL user joins this listserv. 

How to add yourself

  • Send an email to sympa@sympa.montana.edu from the email address you want to subscribe to the list.
  • In the subject line of your message, type in: subscribe ICAL User Firstname Lastname (indicate your own first name and last name).
  • Leave the message body blank.

Acknowledgment

When citing a core facility, please ensure that you are referencing their Research Resource Identifier (RRID) number, and funding source. A citation example for ICAL is provided below:

"Funding for the Imaging and Chemical Analysis Laboratory (RRID:SCR_026325), a Montana State University core facility, used in this publication was made possible by the MSU Office of Research and Economic Development"

Recommended Guidelines for Authorship on Manuscripts

How should we acknowledge or include core facility personnel as authors? (the publication of results and data interpretation provided by the core facility)  

Please follow this link to Association of Biomolecular Resources Facilities (ABRF) site on recommended guidelines for including core facility personnel as co-authors in publications.

Publication record is essential to ensure a high-quality core facility and for the professional development of its staff, we ask our users to carefully consider the input of core members to scientific publications.